Testing does not reveal the true learning students receive in school

All this talk about education failing. If it was true, we would still be carrying transistor radios, driving one-colored cars and using public phones to talk to a girlfriend.

I believe there is nothing wrong with our education.

What is wrong are some individuals not taking advantage of education.

It is not the end of the world for them though.

Those who do not get an education will, I believe, become the backbone of the economy.

They are the labor that moves the economy. Not everybody can be chief.

No four-hour test can measure the ability of a person’s future.

Those tests do not tell the life of an individual.

To me, the only thing those tests do is place individuals between smart and not smart.

Those tests show the individuals who are gifted outside education, such as artists, musicians, those with business sense, those with street smarts and other non-educational fields where many people make more money than those with a degree.

Those tests talk in general, such as schools, districts, states and countries, in comparison with others.

I believe that is wrong because even the lowest school on their list will graduate students who will become professionals, teachers, supervisors, business-persons and even college graduates.

They forget about the individual students’ goals, and who really care less about their tests and the results of the “experts’” opinions.

In my opinion, the testers are only there for the money.

Their results mean nothing in the real world and turns out to be a waste of time for teachers and students.